Police find marijuana in Rockland vegetable patch

ROCKLAND - Police say officers were searching for drugs dropped during a foot chase Tuesday when they came across two marijuana plants growing in a backyard vegetable garden.

Police said they determined that the two plants – both more than four feet tall – belonged to Donna Coleman, 49, of 18 Phillips St. They said Coleman would be charged with cultivating marijuana with intent to manufacture.

Police said officers happened upon Coleman’s vegetable garden while looking for drugs dropped by Lutheurson Bonheur, a 22-year-old Mattapan man who led police on a brief chase after an officer tried to pull him over for speeding on Hingham Street around 9 a.m. Tuesday. Police said Bonheur eventually pulled onto Phillips Street, which is a dead end, and jumped from the car while it was still moving.

Police said the car crashed into bushes at the end of the cul-de-sac as Bonheur ran into Coleman’s backyard, where police detained him using a stun gun. Officers searched the area and found five bags of heroin and one bag of crack cocaine, police said.

Bonheur was arrested on charges of speeding, failing to stop for a police officer, violating marked lanes, driving to endanger, driving with a suspended license, possession of heroin with intent to distribute and possession of crack cocaine with intent to distribute.